Baking Soft Pretzels with Your Kids

A great easy kid friendly recipe is making soft pretzels. I remember making this easy kid friendly recipe with my mom and dad when I was a kid - and I treasure the precious memories of that day even now.

Making soft pretzels is a fun, healthy kid friendly recipe that gets the kids heavily involved. The recipes calls for adding flour and water to make dough, adding yeast to make the dough rise, shaping the dough into pretzel shapes and finally handing it over to mom or dad to put in the oven. Wow what great fun for the kids!

Having quick and easy kid friendly recipes at hand can make a boring day into a fun family tasty day. You and your children will remember these days for years to come. Kitchen for Kids: 100 Amazing Recipes Your Children Can Really Make is a great cookbook with more easy kid friendly recipes that children can really make.



SOFT PRETZEL RECIPE

Ingredients

1 packet of active dry yeast
3 teaspoons dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cups warm water (105 - 110 degrees F.)
1 tablespoon salt
4 cups all-purpose flour
Cornmeal and extra flour for dusting worksurface
Coarse kosher salt

• Combine yeast, 1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar, and water. Let stand 5 minutes until foamy.
• Add remaining sugar and salt and mix well.
• Add flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing by hand until completely mixed .
• Knead dough until nice and smooth about 7 minutes and has a shiny look.
• Put into a bowl and let stand with a cover on it for 40 minutes in a place that's good n' warm.
• Dust where you're going to work with flour and cornmeal.
• Divide dough into 12 pieces and roll out to the length and thickness you want. (Note: thinner=crispier).
• Make dough into pretzel-shapes and put on a baking sheet that has been dusted with cornmeal.
• Allow pretzels to rise for 30 minutes.
• Make sure they're uncovered.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Bring a large pot full of water to a boil.
• Carefully put risen pretzels to boiling water with a spatula and boil on one side for 2 minutes,then you flip and boil other side for 1 1/2 minutes.
• Move boiled pretzels to a rack to drain for a minute.
• Put pretzels on a baking sheet, lightly dusted with cornmeal, and sprinkle with coarse kosher salt.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

source:foodnetwork.com